Category Archives: Gillian Rose

My favourite academic books of 2024

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the … Continue reading

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The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio)

The RTE interview of Gillian Rose (audio) Thanks to Robert Lucas Scott for the link. Update 21 November: I should have given the link to the transcription published in Theory, Culture and Society in 2008, edited by Vincent Lloyd. It’s … Continue reading

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Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

Jenny Turner reviews Gillian Rose, Marxism Modernism and Love’s Work at London Review of Books

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Books received – Foucault, Rose, Machold, Hoffman, Miller

Some books sent by editors or publishers – Michel Foucault, Généalogies de la sexualité, Rhys Machold, Fabricating Homeland Security, Marcelo Hoffman, Foucault in Brazil and Paul Allen Miller (ed.), Truth in the Late Foucault – and Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism, … Continue reading

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Books received – Koyré, Meillet, Rose, Barry, Moyn

Some recently bought second-hand books, including Gillian Rose’s The Broken Middle, James Barry, Measures of Science, and Samuel Moyn, Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics. Top of the pile is a first edition of Alexandre Koyré’s … Continue reading

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Books received – Rose, Sartre, Koyré, Benveniste, Greimas, Foucault

The reedition of Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work; Sartre’s Literary and Philosophical Essays; the Mélanges collections for Alexandre Koyré and Emile Benveniste; Algirdas Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology; and Foucault’s Nietzsche: Cours, conférences et travaux, edited by … Continue reading

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Gillian Rose, Love’s Work – Penguin reissue and discussion

Gillian Rose’s classic book, Love’s Work was reissued by Penguin earlier this year. There was a discussion of the book and her work generally at the London Review Bookshop with James Butler, Rebekah Howes and Rowan Williams – available here. … Continue reading

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Maya Krishnan on the legacy of Gillian Rose

Maya Krishnan, The Risk of the Universal: The Philosophy of Gillian Rose

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Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024 

Gillian Rose, Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory – Verso, August 2024  Marxist Modernism presents for the first time Gillian Rose’s 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School, art, and politics. Delivered soon after the publication of her now … Continue reading

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Books received – Chestov, Nietzsche, Ginzburg, Rose, Spotts, Bataille

Some recently bought books – Léon Chestov’s L’idée de bien chez Tolstoï et Nietzsche (Bataille was one of the translators); the two most recent volumes of the Stanford Nietzsche translations; Carlo Ginzburg’s The Judge and the Historian; Gillian Rose, Judaism … Continue reading

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